Articles by Keith Russell
The Rev. Dr. Keith A. Russell, an American Baptist minister, is The Distinguished Senior Professor of Ministry Studies at New York Theological Seminary in New York City. He has served both as an urban pastor and a seminary president.
By Rev. Dr. Keith Russell
A Message from the Editor on Pentecost
By Rev. Dr. Keith Russell
What would happen to our Easter pulpits if we simply sought to roll the stone away so that people could confront the forces of death in their own lives? Do we dare challenge the principalities and powers of our age with the implications of a God who is both present in life and who lives beyond the boundaries of death?
By Keith A. Russell
Beginning with the third Sunday of February and going through the month of March, the church enters the Lenten season. The challenges to the preaching during the Lenten season are several. First, we need to overcome the tendency to equate Lent with personal self-denial as in “what are you giving up” for Lent. Secondly, we need to examine our own needs as we move toward the Holy Week/Easter period. Can we help other to experience something fresh about God? Can we deepen our hunger for the reign of God? Can we focus our need away from consuming to searching or desiring in such a way to reflect the psalmist’s plea “that as a hart longs for cooling waters, so my soul long for God.”?
By Keith A. Russell
We are certainly impacted by globalization as was dramatically demonstrated in the recent economic collapse both here and around the world. Do we or can we also have an impact on the reality of globalization. How does this global reality affect our preaching and teaching? Hopefully we can become more informed about this complicated world view and begin to understand the implications it presents from the simplest sermon on stewardship to the more complicated focus on community building and loving our neighbor.
By Keith A. Russell
Epiphany of the Lord, Baptism of the Lord, Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Third Sunday after Epiphany, Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
by Rev. Dr. Keith A. Russell
This issue of The Living Pulpit is focused on sacrament. …we explore the meaning or reality of sacrament from a variety of perspectives.
by Rev. Dr. Keith A. Russell
The focus of this issue is on home. The question of what is home is explored from a variety of perspectives.
by Keith A. Russell
The focus of this issue is on home. The question of what is home is explored from a variety of perspectives.
by Dr. Keith A. Russell
I hope that you will find this issue of THE LIVING PULPIT to be a stimulating discussion of the challenge of Easter preaching. There is no doubt across diverse Christian traditions about the centrality of Easter for Christian faith and practice. The question raised in this issue of our journal is not about the importance or centrality of Easter but about how to present this event at the end of the 20th century.
